Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider: this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense!
Why would a Wookiee -- an eight foot tall Wookiee -- want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
But more importantly, you have to ask yourself: what does that have to do with this case?
Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!
Look at me, I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation... does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense.
If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
An intelligent alien race has forseen our need for expansion and has worked in conjuction with the military/scientific community of Earths major governments to begin syphoning off the gasses of Jupiter. Upon completion of this project in a few hundred years, we would have space cruisers capible of making an exodus to other celestial bodies. At this time the syphon effect will have thinned the atmosphere of Jupiter and brought it closer to the sun forming a very habitable evironment.
Scientists will of course constructed mobile Zoo Ships to transport vegitation and wildlife to this new home.
I too agree, I don't seem to understand why he is saying this. From my understanding what he is trying to relay is that we should disregard such works as LotR and any of its like, such as Beowulf? maybe such works as The Oddessy. Why stop there? Let's discount all legends and lores. They aren't forward thinking at all...
I find his writing on this subject to do nothing but lower his reputation.
I couldnt stop thinkging of "I'm An Asshole" whilst reading that whole post... =)/salute
But damnit you ruined your whole statement by posting anon...
If it helps Im in almost total agreement with his post - I do think that people need less 'YOU MUST DO IT THIS WAY OR DIE' and more 'OK.. sounds good to me, lets try it your way' attitudes than anything else though.
People need to take responsability for their own actions, forgive but not forget, and most of all offer out instead of asking for.
Whenever, in their anguish, they try to escape from Hell... as you said yourself - that is their punishment in hell not on earth. On earth Islams and Muslams may not harm specificly any Christian or a Jew. it is also frowned upont to harm others as well.
If it does go down that road and we all end up having "faulty encryption" I believe I will still find or write encryption that will not adhere to these terms, if they want to take me to court over it, let em. I'll then decrypt my grandma's cooking tips and recipese for those oh-so-tasty cookies of hers and see how much the jury laughs.
Seriously, convincing the public to provide back doors in security 'just in case' is like asking for a copy of their house key, and one of their safe deposite box. Come on!
If you did some time researching the religion Allah is the same meaning as our word God.
Another thing, how can you call a religion stupid, if someone believes something different than you - does that make it stupid, their religion says nothing about killing people to go to heaven, the only thing i find stupid is the fact that people kill in the name of God.
Where on the 10 commandments or in any scripture is there:
"Thou shalt not kill.* "
-snip-
"*(Except in Gods name.)"
Contempt is bred through ignorance.
Please do some studying before relaying views on something as delicate as religion.
prolly get modded down for this but i got some spare karma. =p
So, just remember, patents don't protect the inventer. Patents exist to the benefit of corporate america and the us government...
Actually I would slightly disagree with you on this matter.
Patents do a great deal to keep control of an idea/concept/plan/what-have-you for even single people. It is like all things that have come from the US so far, it started off as an excellant idea, but from there we grew as a nation and as a planet, however the systems we put in place have not. And that is the problem with not only the patent system but many other aspects of our life.
"In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while
the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb", "The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"
My friend has developed similar tracking packages. He's used this technology everywhere, from his signature on messageboards all the way to the corporate level. Rather interesting tidbits of information you can find out about people based on even just messageboard reading habbits.
Forcing designers to make games that dont suck...
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This is a great idea for the consumers, could be bad for the companies, now they can hype all they want but if it's not up to snuff with the rental crowds then 'pshaw' on that game and on to the next.
We have obviously come a long way in the name of open source and public education about the need to understand the software you use. However it doesn't seem to have mutch of an effect on the people that count. It truely is a 'way of thinking' and it seem that it is quite difficult to change the way people think.
In your opinion and observations, what if any future do you see for the open source movements place in the world and its impact on societys ways of thinking?
Ive been reading through a bit of the posts in reply to the main article, and it looks as if most everyone is missing the point here.
For one I dont think she was intending the article to imply that applications and operating systems should be 'game-like', rather, have the intuitiveness and ease of use that the game developing community has developed as their overall interface. Menus are easy to navigate in games, items easy to switch to, everything is right there at your fingertips. When is the last time you were playing a game and had to drop out of the game and into a menu system to switch weapons or turn on your 'walk mode'. It's not about designing an OS to be a FPS. It's about anticipating what the user needs/wants.
Another issue is the learning curve. It was mentioned that the user should start off with a few options. I took that to mean that when a user first begins they can have direct access to the main features, then after some time of getting used to it present them with a 'Maybe you would like to use this tool...' type of dialogue box. Of course with the option of custom layout if your a 'jump-right-in' person.
What I guess I'm getting at is if you think about it in a broader sense she is right on the money. I'de like to read the whole interview or maybe talk to her - shes got alot goin on in her head and as an applications/interface designer myself I understand that people don't normally understand what your trying to convey to them from your immagination.
The Zelda series has captured me from day one with its release of a golden carted game, 'The Legend of Zelda'. and it has kept me entwined in its evolution over the years. Through the different incarnations of Link and his adventures, he has never lost the fantasy-realism feeling. Even though the look and play of the N64 versions was drasticly different from the originals, it still had that feeling. The thing was that I could always feel the game i guess. I'm in no way knocking 'cartoons' either - I can usually empathise with the characters in them - depending of course how they were written..., but it almost seems like the same as re-drawing Ninja Scroll into Dragon-Half style animation.
I just hope it's all still there with this new fandangled thing.
Can I be a sprinter if I weigh 300 pounds and can't run?
Sprinting is not a professional career.
Can I be deaf and have a job that requires talking on the phone all day?
Yes it's called a teletypist - thanks to this invention, people who are hearing impared can type messages through a phone line which is then inturpreted by an outside service, and therefore can do their job successfully.
Can I be blind and direct traffic?
I wouldn't reccomend it.
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The ADA protects other 'crippled' people by providing a means for them to work and to do their job to the best of their potential. How is this different from typing, or any other profession which would be endangered due to a disability?
Someone loses their ability to work in their profession and, for most, participate in their hobby/mental exercise/what-have-you then they are disabled. How does this not apply to typing? Unless someone wants to get me a nerve implant right to my brain/spinal cord, Ima fight that if anything happens to my hands to where I can't type.
At this stage, languages are meant to make thing easier for the programmer.
Keep up _this_ thinking and we'll all be de-spaghettifying _your_ code.
Languages are already way too easy and bloated - I think it's time for more hardcore languages to come out. All these/easy/ languages are letting in too many Joe Schmoes, ya know the type. Mr. Hey-I-took-a-class-once comes in and look hes got your job now. I for one am tired of people that just haven't the ability to write or think outside of the box and I'm also tired of floating on a fluffy cloud of tangled pasta code. I want streamlined, fast-as-hell code and people that can write it.
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The Chewbacca Defense:
Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider: this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense!
Why would a Wookiee -- an eight foot tall Wookiee -- want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
But more importantly, you have to ask yourself: what does that have to do with this case?
Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!
Look at me, I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation... does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense.
If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
Mind-Reading-Mind-Reader-Program
It is just something that comes up when we are kicking the old peanut around in dev sessions and programmer meetings here at the office.
WE'RE ALL GUNNA DIE!!!1!
This article assumes that these companies are all about profit. Hate to burst their bubble but that isn't always everyones motives in life.
An intelligent alien race has forseen our need for expansion and has worked in conjuction with the military/scientific community of Earths major governments to begin syphoning off the gasses of Jupiter. Upon completion of this project in a few hundred years, we would have space cruisers capible of making an exodus to other celestial bodies. At this time the syphon effect will have thinned the atmosphere of Jupiter and brought it closer to the sun forming a very habitable evironment.
Scientists will of course constructed mobile Zoo Ships to transport vegitation and wildlife to this new home.
Then again maybe not...
I too agree, I don't seem to understand why he is saying this. From my understanding what he is trying to relay is that we should disregard such works as LotR and any of its like, such as Beowulf? maybe such works as The Oddessy. Why stop there? Let's discount all legends and lores. They aren't forward thinking at all...
I find his writing on this subject to do nothing but lower his reputation.
Your name isn't by chance, Dennis Leery is it?
/salute
I couldnt stop thinkging of "I'm An Asshole" whilst reading that whole post... =)
But damnit you ruined your whole statement by posting anon...
If it helps Im in almost total agreement with his post - I do think that people need less 'YOU MUST DO IT THIS WAY OR DIE' and more 'OK.. sounds good to me, lets try it your way' attitudes than anything else though.
People need to take responsability for their own actions, forgive but not forget, and most of all offer out instead of asking for.
Whenever, in their anguish, they try to escape from Hell... as you said yourself - that is their punishment in hell not on earth. On earth Islams and Muslams may not harm specificly any Christian or a Jew. it is also frowned upont to harm others as well.
If it does go down that road and we all end up having "faulty encryption" I believe I will still find or write encryption that will not adhere to these terms, if they want to take me to court over it, let em. I'll then decrypt my grandma's cooking tips and recipese for those oh-so-tasty cookies of hers and see how much the jury laughs.
Seriously, convincing the public to provide back doors in security 'just in case' is like asking for a copy of their house key, and one of their safe deposite box. Come on!
If you did some time researching the religion Allah is the same meaning as our word God.
Another thing, how can you call a religion stupid, if someone believes something different than you - does that make it stupid, their religion says nothing about killing people to go to heaven, the only thing i find stupid is the fact that people kill in the name of God.
Where on the 10 commandments or in any scripture is there:
"Thou shalt not kill.* "
-snip-
"*(Except in Gods name.)"
Contempt is bred through ignorance.
Please do some studying before relaying views on something as delicate as religion.
prolly get modded down for this but i got some spare karma. =p
What would one cross with to get purple? Sea Anemones perhaps?
:) - how interesting that would taste eh? heh
Perhaps even an eggplant
So, just remember, patents don't protect the inventer. Patents exist to the benefit of corporate america and the us government...
Actually I would slightly disagree with you on this matter.
Patents do a great deal to keep control of an idea/concept/plan/what-have-you for even single people. It is like all things that have come from the US so far, it started off as an excellant idea, but from there we grew as a nation and as a planet, however the systems we put in place have not. And that is the problem with not only the patent system but many other aspects of our life.
"In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while
the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb", "The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"
- Nostradamus 1654
... people still remember ebay.
& item=1637566709
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem
here is the MSNBC article relating to this story.
My friend has developed similar tracking packages. He's used this technology everywhere, from his signature on messageboards all the way to the corporate level. Rather interesting tidbits of information you can find out about people based on even just messageboard reading habbits.
This is a great idea for the consumers, could be bad for the companies, now they can hype all they want but if it's not up to snuff with the rental crowds then 'pshaw' on that game and on to the next.
We have obviously come a long way in the name of open source and public education about the need to understand the software you use. However it doesn't seem to have mutch of an effect on the people that count. It truely is a 'way of thinking' and it seem that it is quite difficult to change the way people think.
In your opinion and observations, what if any future do you see for the open source movements place in the world and its impact on societys ways of thinking?
.ph0x
Space.com also has an article here. Similarly a good read for those of you that can't get enough.
.ph0x
Ive been reading through a bit of the posts in reply to the main article, and it looks as if most everyone is missing the point here.
For one I dont think she was intending the article to imply that applications and operating systems should be 'game-like', rather, have the intuitiveness and ease of use that the game developing community has developed as their overall interface. Menus are easy to navigate in games, items easy to switch to, everything is right there at your fingertips. When is the last time you were playing a game and had to drop out of the game and into a menu system to switch weapons or turn on your 'walk mode'. It's not about designing an OS to be a FPS. It's about anticipating what the user needs/wants.
Another issue is the learning curve. It was mentioned that the user should start off with a few options. I took that to mean that when a user first begins they can have direct access to the main features, then after some time of getting used to it present them with a 'Maybe you would like to use this tool...' type of dialogue box. Of course with the option of custom layout if your a 'jump-right-in' person.
What I guess I'm getting at is if you think about it in a broader sense she is right on the money. I'de like to read the whole interview or maybe talk to her - shes got alot goin on in her head and as an applications/interface designer myself I understand that people don't normally understand what your trying to convey to them from your immagination.
.ph0x
The Zelda series has captured me from day one with its release of a golden carted game, 'The Legend of Zelda'. and it has kept me entwined in its evolution over the years. Through the different incarnations of Link and his adventures, he has never lost the fantasy-realism feeling. Even though the look and play of the N64 versions was drasticly different from the originals, it still had that feeling. The thing was that I could always feel the game i guess. I'm in no way knocking 'cartoons' either - I can usually empathise with the characters in them - depending of course how they were written..., but it almost seems like the same as re-drawing Ninja Scroll into Dragon-Half style animation.
I just hope it's all still there with this new fandangled thing.
.ph0x
Crap my underground pr0n ring is in danger now!! Better start embedding in mp3's...
.ph0x
Can I be a sprinter if I weigh 300 pounds and can't run?
.ph0x
Sprinting is not a professional career.
Can I be deaf and have a job that requires talking on the phone all day?
Yes it's called a teletypist - thanks to this invention, people who are hearing impared can type messages through a phone line which is then inturpreted by an outside service, and therefore can do their job successfully.
Can I be blind and direct traffic?
I wouldn't reccomend it.
-
The ADA protects other 'crippled' people by providing a means for them to work and to do their job to the best of their potential. How is this different from typing, or any other profession which would be endangered due to a disability?
Someone loses their ability to work in their profession and, for most, participate in their hobby/mental exercise/what-have-you then they are disabled. How does this not apply to typing? Unless someone wants to get me a nerve implant right to my brain/spinal cord, Ima fight that if anything happens to my hands to where I can't type.
.ph0x
At this stage, languages are meant to make thing easier for the programmer.
/easy/ languages are letting in too many Joe Schmoes, ya know the type. Mr. Hey-I-took-a-class-once comes in and look hes got your job now. I for one am tired of people that just haven't the ability to write or think outside of the box and I'm also tired of floating on a fluffy cloud of tangled pasta code. I want streamlined, fast-as-hell code and people that can write it.
.ph0x
Keep up _this_ thinking and we'll all be de-spaghettifying _your_ code.
Languages are already way too easy and bloated - I think it's time for more hardcore languages to come out. All these